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Those are the like 50 page piece of crap they sell at the counter at waterstones, right? Yeah, avoid those.

There are plenty of guides to the best introductory texts for a given subject. Just ask /lit/ or /his/ or /sci/ or whichever board is most appropriate, or check their stickies.

Also

>A """""short introduction"""""
>Literally everything an expert on the topic knows about the topic

I always found this suspicious. Not for this series I mean, just this genre of book.

>>8206516
Introduction to Intro is a good starting point.

>>8206516
I read this edition of Kant by Roger Scruton. Somehow more difficult in parts than Kant himself.

>you will never stick your wand between those tits

As far as I know, her rags to riches story isn't bullshit, but you know how the world is: for the one that succeeds, they never tell you of the thousand that starved to death.

She was on welfare and wrote shit books. I wish she had not gotten welfare and instead starved to death.

>>8206328
>red pill me
You're going to fail and die a horrible death.

diabeetus

Autism

He let fame get to his head.

bro just read some Nick Land or Alain de Benoist we're off that neoliberal shit now

>>8206235

This place has a shit-ton of marxists and commies.

Don't expect to make it out of here alive.

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>>8206286
There's a lot of our kind here, too. Wish we'd talk less about Evola and mention Carlyle more often, though.

I also wish the commies would engage more in debate instead of doing the lazy >>>/pol/

>>8206210
you're clearly too stupid to be here. which is astounding, bc we're all morons.

heave you guys heard uk left euro?

Nice picturesque imagery with high degree of symbolism and allegory

Both very pleasant to read while allowing a very high spiritual / intellectual reading

It is surely underrated

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>>8206077

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>>8206077
>book named The Tunnel
>Gass
>not Ernesto Sabato

>>8206077
I'm halfway through, it's absolutely incredible. His prose is just heart stoppingly beautiful. Already one of my favourite books, don't listen to tamponposters /lit/

If she had a brain, you'd know he never truly vouches for noble values; just lays out his ideas and idolizes them because they're hard af. Ayn Rand is a fucking idiot that is never relevant

Yes, but nobody will admit it.

That didn't make Nietzsche wrong though. It's actually a flaw in trans work that morality hangs off the ego like a still born Siamese twin fetus.
She's now stirner light than she is Nietzsches light.

Yeah but none of that contains an argument why Nietzsche is wrong.

Ayn Rand's promotion of muh morality and muh reason basically amounts to "i-i-if we don't we would be like animals, and that's, like, bad and stuff"

There is nothing irrational about being Attila, really.

>Stoner for the beautiful existential sadness
>Moby-Dick for more existential pondering but also solid keks
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for sheer comfiness

>>8205889
>has a picture with windmills
>declines to take Don Quixote
pleb.

Don Quixote
Petersburg
Pocket Edition of Le Complete Shakespeare

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>Les Trois Mousquetaires
>Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
>La Reine Margot
Nothing like Dumas for an adventure.

There's a reason why the mind can go both ways. If you can do both you're gold.
/Eastern Philosophy

that question is being asked by the ego. so, any choice you make will be the 1st one anyway.

if you are to go for the second you dont 'destroy' it or do anything. you just stop and let things go by. but of course when this happens, our consciousness keeps working and showing us all we take to be things ego permanence etc. that is the nature of the human mind. the point is realizing that this things we see are just another natural phenomena, like the sun rising and setting, or the plants withering and thriving.

the language, or at least ours, plays us a trick here, it is always a step ahead. cause by phrasing the issue as 'attempting', 'stopping' etc we are implicitly posing an active agent, no matter what the verb is. and even if we use the passive form this is still being taken as given. if one overlooks this, roaming in the world of ideas using this structure wont take you anywhere.

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>>8205699
>s it better to attempt to build the ego,
only hedonists think this

>>8205691
it doesn't matter that much if you are already accostumed reading long books.

In my opinion BK it's his best work

>>8205692
thanks m8

Notes from Underground or Crime and Punishment are the general starting points, but it doesn't really matter.

The Brothers K is special in that the religious themes are the most pronounced in it by far.

>>8205135
0/10
But don't give up

>>8205138
Thanks for the words of encouragement. I'm still new to poetry. Do you have any poems to share?

>>8205143
No I don't. Tried to write some and it was all shit so I'm taking a break from writing poems.

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>>8204993
William Gibson

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>>8204993
>Pessoa

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hal incandenza

To sum the book up

Kiss EVERY ONE YOU KNOW'S ASS

Lick the sweat around the base of the asshole

Then pucker up and kiss that hole.

Its shit.

It's kind of outdated, it must be useful for the ultra autistic only

>>8204852
Im autistic and I thought it was all common sense desu

>>8204604
The solution is quite simple. You must cuck your cuck so that cucks no longer cuck your cuck. Then you may cuck cuckfully without being cucked by cucks.

>>8204604
signs are spooks, idiot.

My problem with Stirner is that he built off of Hegel. I think that Nietzsche was more successful because he built off of Schopenhauer.

>>8204604
Why do you think that capitalism will own you? Only Marxists this way. You own most of what you work for. Capitalism is forever in favor of the individual. If you choose the schedule then you own the time. If you are on a schedule because you 'must' be on it then you are being spooked. If it fulfills your end then surely it is in your power.

>>8204342

I think I'm not in the mood to impotently rage against people on the internet.

dumb.

that was easy, next please.

i think it's good to read widely, but purposely cutting out large swathes of quality literature is silly